39th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 38 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150268563 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING IMMERSION FLUID IN THE GAP UNDER THE PROJECTION LENS DURING WAFER EXCHANGE IN AN IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY MACHINE - An immersion exposure apparatus and method involves (i) supporting a substrate with a stage, (ii) arranging the stage under an optical assembly to maintain immersion liquid in a gap between the optical assembly and the stage, (iii) projecting an image onto the substrate via the optical assembly and the immersion liquid, (iv) arranging a movable pad, which is movable separately from the stage, adjacent to the stage, and (v) moving the stage and the pad adjacent to each other relative to the optical assembly to arrange the pad under the optical assembly in place of the stage such that the immersion liquid is maintained below the optical assembly during the movement, thereby to arrange the movable pad under the optical assembly to maintain the immersion liquid in a gap between the optical assembly and the pad. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268564 | Method and System For Overlay Control - A method for overlay monitoring and control is introduced in the present disclosure. The method includes selecting a group of patterned wafers from a lot using a wafer selection model; selecting a group of fields for each of the selected group of patterned wafers using a field selection model; selecting at least one point in each of the selected group of fields using a point selection model; measuring overlay errors of the selected at least one point on a selected wafer; forming an overlay correction map using the measured overlay errors on the selected wafer; and generating a combined overlay correction map using the overlay correction map of each selected wafer in the lot. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268565 | LITHOGRAPHY PROCESS - A method for being used in a lithography process is provided. The method includes receiving a first mask, a second mask and a substrate with a set of baseline registration marks. A first set of registration marks is formed on the substrate using the first mask and a first exposure tool, and a first set of overlay errors is determined. The first set of registration marks is removed and a second set of registration marks is formed on the substrate using the second mask and a second exposure tool. A second set of overlay errors is determined. A set of tool-induced overlay errors is generated from the first and second sets of overlay errors and used in fabricating a third mask. The third mask can then be used in the lithography process to accommodate the overlay errors caused by different exposure tools, different masks, and different mask writers. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268566 | VIBRATION REDUCTION APPARATUS, LITHOGRAPHY APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a vibration reduction apparatus which reduces a vibration of a target object supported on a base, comprising a first object supported by a first elastic member on the base, a second object supported by a second elastic member on the first object, a detection unit including a sensor having a first electrode provided on the first object and a second electrode provided on the second object, and a processor configured to obtain a distance between the first electrode and the second electrode using the sensor, a first driving unit configured to drive the first object, a first control unit configured to control the distance between the first electrode and the second electrode constant based on a detection result, wherein the second electrode and the processor are electrically connected to each other via the second elastic member. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268567 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layered photosensitive layer formed so as to overlie the conductive substrate, the photosensitive layer containing a binder resin, a charge-generating material, a hole-transporting material, an electron-transporting material represented by General Formula (1), and at least one compound selected from a compound represented by General Formula (2) and a compound represented by General Formula (3). The amount of the at least one compound selected from the compound represented by General Formula (2) and the compound represented by General Formula (3) is in the range of approximately 10 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight in total relative to 100 parts by weight of the electron-transporting material represented by General Formula (1). | 2015-09-24 |
20150268568 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a singlelayer type photosensitive layer that contains a binder resin (A), a charge generating material (B), a positive hole transporting material (C), an electron transporting material (D) whose content is in a range of 10% by weight to 40% by weight with respect to the binder resin (A) and which is represented by the following formula (d), and a terphenyl compound (E): | 2015-09-24 |
20150268569 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a cylindrical conductive substrate, an undercoat layer containing a cured product of a resin and a blocked isocyanate and being disposed on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer on the undercoat layer. The degree of curing of the undercoat layer defined by the equation below is about 1.5 or less in both a region A and a region B defined below: | 2015-09-24 |
20150268570 | BRILLIANT TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A brilliant toner includes flake shape toner particles containing a binder resin and a flake shape metallic pigment. The brilliant toner further includes tabular particles containing a Ti element. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268571 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - Disclosed is a decolorizable electrophotographic toner, including: a binder resin; and a colorant which contains at least a color developable compound and a color developing agent and is covered with an outer shell so as to have a capsule structure, wherein the number ratio of particles having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.6 μm or more and 2.5 μm or less of the toner when measured using a flow particle image analyzer after the toner is dispersed in an aqueous medium at a ratio of 0.08% by weight and the resulting dispersion is subjected to a stirring treatment in which stirring is performed at 5000 rpm for 30 minutes using a homogenizer (T-25 digital ULTRA-TURRAX (manufactured by IKA Japan K.K., provided with a shaft generator S25N-10G)) is 30% by number or less. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268572 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes flake shape toner particles containing a binder resin and a flake shape brilliant pigment, and the toner particles satisfying the following expression: | 2015-09-24 |
20150268573 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing an amorphous polyester resin (a1), a crystalline polyester resin (a2), and a styrene-acrylic resin (b) containing 2-carboxyethyl acrylate as a polymerization component. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268574 | TONER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including a polyester resin having an amorphous polyester segment is provided. The amorphous polyester segment includes a condensation polymerization product between a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. The carboxylic acid includes both aliphatic and aromatic dicarboxylic acids. The toner deforms with a deformation rate of from 1.0% to 5.0% under a pressure of 100 gf at 40° C. and 80% RH. In a binarized image of an AFM phase image of the toner, first phase-contrast images serving as large-phase-difference portions are dispersed in second phase-contrast images serving as small-phase-difference portions, and the first phase-contrast images have a dispersion diameter of 100 nm or less. An endothermic quantity Q1 obtained in a first heating of DSC is from 10 to 50 J/g, and a ratio of an endothermic quantity obtained in the second heating Q2 to that in first heating Q1 is 0.65 or less. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268575 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER USING BIOPLASTIC AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An electrophotographic toner having good grindability, a wide fixing temperature range and excellent durability, and a method of producing the same are provided. The electrophotographic toner includes, as a binder resin, an amorphous bioplastic having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 5,000 to 40,000, a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 20,000 to 60,000, and a ratio of Mw/Mn of 1.4 or more. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268576 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a colorant, and strontium titanate particles, wherein the strontium titanate particles have a volume average particle diameter of 800 nm to 10,000 nm, a maximum peak at a Bragg angle of 32.2° in CuKα characteristic X-ray diffraction, and a half-value width of the maximum peak equal to or greater than 0.5 degrees. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268577 | TONER AND TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - The present invention is a toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin and a charge control agent, wherein the binder resin includes a resin having a polyester unit with at least one aliphatic compound condensed to the terminal thereof, the at least one aliphatic compound being selected from the group consisting of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids each having 30 or more and 102 or less carbon atoms and aliphatic monoalcohols each having 30 or more and 102 or less carbon atoms; and the charge control agent includes a specific compound (a pyrazolone monoazo metal compound). | 2015-09-24 |
20150268578 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING CARRIER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles have an unevenness average Sm of a surface, an arithmetic surface roughness Ra of a surface, a BET specific surface area A, and a volume average particle diameter D50v satisfying the following expressions (1) to (4): | 2015-09-24 |
20150268579 | POLYMERIC DISPERSANT FOR LIQUID DEVELOPER, LIQUID DEVELOPER, AND PRINTED MATTER - An embodiment of the present invention relates to a polymeric dispersant for a liquid developer, which is obtained by copolymerizing at least an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having an amino group, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having an alkyl group with a carbon number of 9 to 24, and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer represented by general formula (1) shown below: | 2015-09-24 |
20150268580 | OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, OPTICAL WRITING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An optical writing device writes an image on a photoconductor with light emitted from a light-emitting element array including a plurality of light-emitting elements lined in one direction. The optical writing device includes: a thinning unit that thins pixels in input binary image data depending on a pattern of the image data; a thinning rate setting unit that sets a thinning rate by the thinning unit for each predetermined range of the image data; and a light-emitting time changing unit that changes a light-emitting time of the light-emitting element array for each predetermined range of the binary image data thinned by the thinning unit depending on the thinning rate set by the thinning rate setting unit and a set toner saving rate. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268581 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CORRECTION DATA GENERATION METHOD - There is provided an image forming apparatus that reduces an operation speed of a unit configured to generate pieces of correction data with which the light intensity of laser light is corrected. Pieces of first correction data in a scanning direction of a photoconductor drum are associated with light sources and stored in memories. For a plurality of regions of the surface of the photoconductor drum, a CPU outputs, for each of the regions, pieces of correction data including pieces of second correction data for correction of electric potential characteristics of the region. The positions of pieces of first correction data match some of the positions of pieces of second correction data. A laser driver IC controls light intensity of laser light at the timing of the pieces of second correction data in accordance with a piece of first correction data and a piece of second correction data. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268582 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that has a supply port through which developer is supplied, the developing device developing an image with developer; a developer supply device to which the developing device is removably attached, the developer supply device having a discharge port to be connected to the supply port when the developing device is attached to the developer supply device, the developer supply device supplying the developer to the developing device through the discharge port; a seal member that seals between the supply port and the discharge port; and a guide portion that guides attachment of the developing device to the developer supply device or removal of the developing device from the developer supply device so as not to rub the seal member. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268583 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes: a first transport member that transports developer in a developer container; a second transport member that transports the developer in a direction opposite to a direction of transport by the first transport member; an inflow portion provided at a downstream end in the direction of transport by the second transport member and on an outer side with respect to an end of a developer carrying body, the inflow portion allowing the developer to flow from a second housing into a first housing; a high-speed transport portion provided in a range corresponding to the inflow portion and that transports the developer at a higher speed; and a regulating member provided at a position corresponding to a downstream end of the high-speed transport portion in the direction of transport by the first transport member and that regulates a height of a mound of developer in the first housing. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268584 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a developing apparatus which, when using a conveying member having a resin-made rotation shaft member, is capable of preventing fusion and adhesion of a toner in a vicinity of a bearing resulting from friction between the rotation shaft member and the bearing. A developing apparatus includes a developing tank; a first developer conveying section and a second developer conveying section; a first bearing and a second bearing; a first temperature rise suppression section and a second temperature rise suppression section which a have higher thermal conductivity than those of a first rotation shaft member and a second rotation shaft member as well as those of the first bearing and the second bearing; and a deflection suppression belt which is stretched out by the first temperature rise suppression section and the second temperature rise suppression section. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268585 | DEVELOPER CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - In a developer conveyance device, a spiral screw is arranged inside a spiral coil such that the spiral coil and the spiral screw are both rotated. Accompanied by rotation of the spiral coil, even if waste toner tries to pass through the spiral coil and move in a vertical direction, movement of the waste toner in the vertical direction is blocked by the spiral screw, such that the waste toner is conveyed by the spiral screw. Since the waste toner hardly passes through the spiral coil in the vertical direction, the waste toner is also conveyed by the spiral coil. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268586 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device, comprising:
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20150268587 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, FIXING DEVICE, DRYING DEVICE, DEVELOPER, AND LIQUID DROPLETS FOR USE IN IMAGE FORMATION - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium by using a developer and an energy generating unit that generates energy that causes the developer on the recording medium, on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit, to generate heat. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268588 | SUPPLY MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A supply member that supplies an ink to a developing portion performing developing while being rotated, includes a plurality of concave portions that are formed on an outer circumferential surface and are randomly arranged so that an interval between one concave portion and a concave portion nest to the foregoing one concave portion on one side and an interval between the foregoing one concave portion and a concave portion next to the foregoing one concave portion on the other side are different from each other. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TONER APPLICATION - Apparatus is described which, in use, applies a thin film of a wetting agent, such as water or a water-based solution, onto paper or other print medium before applying a liquid toner. The wetting agent is applied at a predetermined distance from an image transfer area. The wetting agent acts to promote adhesion of the liquid toner to the print medium. The adhesion of the liquid toner to the print medium is further improved by supplying the wetting agent at a temperature higher than room temperature. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268590 | LIQUID DEVELOPMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid development device includes a storage section storing a liquid developer in which toner is dispersed, a development member to which the liquid developer stored in the storage section is applied using an application unit, a removing device that, after an electrostatic latent image in a latent image-holding member is developed, removes the liquid developer remaining in the development member, and a shearing device that is provided in a path through which the liquid developer removed using the removing device is returned to the storage section, and applies a shear force to the liquid developer by making the liquid developer pass through a contact section of two members either or both of which rotate and that have different circumferential velocities from each other. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268591 | BELT UNIT, TRANSFER UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A belt unit is detachably attachable to a body of an image forming apparatus. The belt unit includes a belt, a pressing member, and a frame. The belt is wound around a plurality of supports to travel in a belt travel direction. The belt includes a base layer and an elastic layer. The pressing member presses warping on an edge of the belt. The frame supports the plurality of supports. The pressing member is positioned on the frame. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268592 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - First to N-th image forming units are sequentially arranged from the upstream to the downstream along the movement direction of an intermediate transfer belt. When L is defined as a distance between contact points of every two adjacent ones of the first to N-th image bearing members with the intermediate transfer member, when V is defined as a moving speed of the intermediate transfer belt and, when a timing at which transfer bias applying unit for the n-th image forming unit is turned off using a timing at which the transfer bias applying unit for the first image forming unit is turned off as reference is defined as (L/V)×(n−1)+α | 2015-09-24 |
20150268593 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A fixing apparatus included in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing heater that performs heat fixing, a control unit that controls the fixing heater based on control patterns, a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the fixing heater, and a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage that is applied to the fixing heater. In each control pattern, turn-on period of the fixing heater and turn-off period of the fixing heater are set according to a control cycle of a half cycle duty control. The control unit controls the switching unit to turn on or off the fixing heater using a combination of the control patterns each satisfying a standard for preventing a flicker during each control period of time that is integral multiplication of the control cycle according to the temperature of the fixing heater and the voltage value allied to the fixing heater. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268594 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image forming system includes receiving units that receive sheet settings and a setting of a mode for reducing toner scattering, a first setting unit setting, according to received sheet settings, a conveyance speed of a sheet when performing an image forming process, a second setting unit setting, according to a received setting of a mode for reducing toner scattering, a transfer voltage of a recording material when performing an image forming process, and an image forming unit that performs an image forming process according to the received sheet setting, a set conveyance speed, and a set transfer voltage, wherein the second setting unit sets, when a mode for reducing toner scattering is received, a first transfer voltage when a first conveyance speed is set and a second transfer voltage, lower than the first transfer voltage, when a second conveyance speed is lower than the first conveyance speed. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268595 | MEMBER FOR USE IN FIXING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A member for use in a fixing device includes a base member that has a substantially cylindrical shape, and a covering member with which an outer peripheral surface of the base member is covered, the covering member including a first release layer that contains a first fluorocarbon resin and a second release layer that contains a second fluorocarbon resin and that is stacked on an area in the outer peripheral surface of the first release layer other than end portions of the outer peripheral surface of the first release layer in a width direction. In the covering member, a coefficient of kinetic friction of the outer peripheral surface of the first release layer that is exposed at ends of the member for use in a fixing device in the width direction is greater than a coefficient of kinetic friction of an outer peripheral surface of the second release layer. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268596 | FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device includes: first and second rotatable members configured to heat-fix, at a nip therebetween, a toner image formed on a sheet by using a toner containing a parting agent; a heating portion, provided opposed to an outer surface of the first rotatable member, configured to heat the first rotatable member through electromagnetic induction heating; a holding portion configured to hold the heating portion; and an extended portion configured to be extended from the holding portion so as to close a gap between itself and the first rotatable member. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268597 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body and a heater disposed opposite the fixing rotary body. A heat shield is movable in a circumferential direction of the fixing rotary body and interposed between the heater and the fixing rotary body to shield the fixing rotary body from the heater. An overheating suppressor is interposed between the heater and the heat shield to shield the heat shield from the heater. The heat shield includes an intermediate portion spanning in the circumferential direction of the fixing rotary body and movable between a shield position where the intermediate portion is disposed opposite the heater directly and a retracted position where the intermediate portion is disposed opposite the heater via the overheating suppressor. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268598 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing member having a medium heating member and rotating while nipping a medium to fix an unfixed image onto a surface thereof; a pressing member disposed facing the fixing member and applying pressure to the medium in a fixing region between the pressing and heating members; a cleaning member; and an antistatic member. The cleaning member is disposed downstream of the fixing region in a rotational direction of the pressing member and comes into contact therewith in a cleaning region extending in a direction orthogonal to a medium transport direction to clean the pressing member. The antistatic member is disposed downstream of the cleaning member and comes into contact with a surface of the pressing member in an antistatic region, which overlaps the cleaning region in the direction orthogonal to the medium transport direction, so as to eliminate static electricity from the pressing member. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268599 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING A DEVELOPER CONTAINING A NON-VOLATILE OIL - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms a toner image on a transported medium using a developer containing toner and non-volatile oil, a heating unit that is arranged on a downstream of the image forming unit in a transport direction of the medium and heats the toner image on the medium to a melting temperature of the toner or higher, and a fixing unit that is arranged on a downstream of the heating unit in the transport direction, wherein the fixing unit includes a heat supply section that supplies heat to the developer on the medium, a removal section that removes the non-volatile oil from the developer to which heat is supplied by the heat supply section, and a fixing section that fixes the toner image, which is formed of the developer from which the non-volatile oil is removed by the removal section, on the medium. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268600 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that performs image formation on continuous paper having a toner image formed thereon by making the continuous paper pass through a nip section to fix the toner image to the continuous paper, the nip section being formed by heating at least one of a pair of fixing members and pressure-contacting the fixing members with each other, the apparatus including: a conveyance section which conveys the continuous paper; a blowing section which blows air to the heated fixing member; a pressure-contact separation section which switches the pair of fixing members between a pressure-contacted state and a separated state; and a control section which, after the image formation is finished, stops heating of the fixing member, separates the pair of fixing members with the pressure-contact separation section and blows the air to the heated fixing member with the blowing section. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268601 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a fuser unit that heats a medium and fuses a developer on the medium, a plurality of heating units that heat the fuser unit, a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the fuser unit, a heating control unit that controls a heating amount of the heating units based on the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit, and a selection unit that selects heating units to start heating from the plurality of heating units. The heating control unit sets such that, among the heating units selected by the selection unit, a heating amount of one of the heating units becomes larger than a heating amount of the others of the heating units. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268602 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING MEHTOD - The image forming apparatus includes an image processing section that converts image data into pixel data, an image forming section that forms a toner image based on the pixel data, and a fixing section that fixes the toner image to the recording material by heating the recording material with the toner image formed thereon while conveying the recording material through a nip portion, wherein the image processing section divides the pixel data corresponding to one recording material into a plurality of areas each formed of a predetermined number of pixels and acquires density information on some of the pixels within each of the areas as representative values, wherein the fixing section carries out a process of fixing the toner image for which the density information has been acquired, under a fixing condition according to a maximum value of the representative values. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268603 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING TONER HEATING UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming sections that form a toner image on a medium to be fed using a developer containing toner and non-volatile oil, and a heating unit that is arranged on a downstream side of an image forming section, which is arranged on an upstream side in a feeding direction of the medium, and on an upstream side of an image forming section, which is arranged on a downstream side in the feeding direction, among the plurality of image forming sections, wherein the heating unit heats the toner on the medium to a melting temperature of the toner or higher. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268604 | FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing device including a heating section that is arranged to be out of contact with a recording medium which is transported, and heats a developer image on the recording medium, a contact member that is arranged on a downstream side from the heating section in a transport direction of the recording medium, and is in contact with an image surface on a developer image side of the recording medium, and a folding member that is arranged between the heating section and the contact member, and folds a transport path of the recording medium from the heating section to the contact member to a side opposite to an image surface side from an extended line so that the contact member is positioned on the opposite side of the heating section from an extended line of the transport path which faces the heating section. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268605 | FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device includes: first and second rotatable members configured to heat-fix, at a nip therebetween, a toner image formed on a sheet by using a toner containing a parting agent; a heating portion, provided opposed to an outer surface of the first rotatable member, configured to heat the first rotatable member through electromagnetic induction heating; a holding portion configured to hold the heating portion; and a suppressing portion configured to suppress air flow in a space between the first rotatable member and the holding portion, wherein the suppressing portion is extended from the holding portion toward the first rotatable member and is provided so that a free end portion thereof is in a position of 0.5 mm or more and 3.5 mm or less from the outer surface of the first rotatable member. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268606 | FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device having: a first rotating member rotating in a first rotational direction; a second rotating member contacting the first rotating member and thereby forming a nip through which a printing medium passes, wherein the second rotating member rotates in a second rotational direction opposite to the first rotational direction; a heating unit heating the first rotating member in a heating section not overlapping with the nip when viewed in a plan view in the predetermined direction; and a first reflective member facing at least a part of a portion of the first rotating member that is located on a downstream side in the first rotational direction relative to the heating section but on an upstream side in the first rotational direction relative to the nip, the first reflective member having a reflection surface on the side facing the first rotating member. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268607 | FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device having: a heating unit; a first rotating member and rotating in a first rotational direction; a second rotating member contacting the first rotating member and thereby forming a nip through which a printing medium passes, wherein the second rotating member rotates in a second rotational direction opposite to the first rotational direction; a reflective member provided around the first rotating member and having a reflection surface provided so as to face the first rotating member; and an inhibitory member inhibiting air in a space between the reflective member and the first rotating member from flowing out through a first gap between a downstream end of the reflective member in the first rotational direction and a closest portion of the first rotating member to the downstream end of the reflective member, wherein the inhibitory member overlaps with a part of the first gap. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268608 | HEATER AND IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE HEATER - The image heating apparatus includes an endless belt, a connector and a heater including an insulated substrate, a heat generating resistor, an electrode brought into contact with a contact of the connector; and a conductor provided on a surface of the insulated substrate opposite to a surface on which the electrode wherein the insulated substrate includes multiple through holes electrically connecting the electrode and the conductor to each other, in an area in which the electrode is provided, wherein the distances between a position on the electrode brought into contact with the contact and the multiple through holes are substantially equal to each other, so that burning of the through hole and conduction failure caused by the burning can be prevented. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268609 | ROLLER SUPPORT MECHANISM, ROLLER UNIT, AND FIXING DEVICE - A roller support mechanism supports a rotary shaft of a second roller disposed in parallel with a first roller. The roller support mechanism includes a support frame, a cover member, a bearing member, and an urging member. The support frame is made of sheet metal and has a support groove extending in a direction away from the first roller and receiving the rotary shaft. The cover member is made of sheet metal and is attached to the support groove to cover a pair of side edge sections facing each other across the support groove. The bearing member is made of resin and has a bearing groove that rotatably supports the rotary shaft. The bearing member is disposed in the support groove, with the cover member interposed therebetween, so as to be movable in a direction toward/away from a bottom of the support groove. The urging member urges the bearing member in a direction away from the bottom of the support groove. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268610 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, LOG STORING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a log storing unit that stores a log of each of plural object items that are set in advance, and a setting unit that, when an error occurs, selects predetermined one or more object items from the plural object items on the basis of a type of the error, and makes a setting such that logs of the selected one or more object items are stored in the log storing unit. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268611 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus feeds a recording sheet from a sheet feed roller, clamps the recording sheet between an image carrier and a transfer roller, transfers a toner image to the recording sheet from the image carrier while conveying the recording sheet, and fixes the transferred toner image on the recording sheet. Recording sheets are stacked on an elevating plate. An elevating plate swinging mechanism vertically swings the elevating plate. A rotation drive mechanism rotates the sheet feed roller in synchronism with the elevating plate swinging mechanism. A recording sheet detector detects a leading edge of each recording sheet fed from the sheet feed roller. A conveyance controller measures sheet feed time from starting a sheet feed operation to detecting the leading edge of the recording sheet. Based on the measured sheet feed time, the conveyance controller sets a sheet feed start timing of a next recording sheet. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268612 | DECURLING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A decurling device includes a shaft; a decurling roller that has a diameter larger than that of the shaft, that becomes concave along an outer periphery of the shaft by being pressed against the shaft, and that removes curl from a transported object by nipping the transported object between the decurling roller and the shaft; and a restriction unit that restricts a direction in which the shaft is bent due to a load that the shaft receives from the decurling roller so that a middle portion of the shaft in an axial direction is convexly curved downstream in a transport direction of the transported object. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268613 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including a first image forming unit that forms a first image on a front surface of a transported medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing unit that heats non-volatile oils on the front surface of the medium to remove the oils, a second image forming unit that forms a second image on a back surface of the medium with a developer including toners and non-volatile oils, a removing section that heats non-volatile oils on the back surface of the medium to remove the oils, and a fixing unit that fixes the first image and the second image on the front surface and the back surface of the medium. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268614 | DRIVE TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A drive transmission device having motor, a first pulley configured to be driven to rotate by the motor, a second pulley configured to be connected to a device, and a belt unit configured to be wound around the first pulley and the second pulley. The belt unit includes a metal layer and a dielectric layer configured to be provided between the first pulley and the metal layer and between the second pulley and the metal layer. The drive transmission device also includes a voltage supply unit configured to supply voltage to cause attraction between the first and second pulleys and the belt and a controller configured to control the voltage of the voltage supply unit based on information indicating load of the device. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268615 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The power supply apparatus includes a transformer that generates an AC voltage; a driving unit that drives a primary side of the transformer to set an output on a secondary side of the transformer to a predetermined value; a rectifying and smoothing unit connected to one end on the secondary side and adapted to rectify and smooth the AC voltage and output a DC voltage of a positive potential; a voltage generation unit connected to another end on the secondary side and adapted to generate a DC voltage to be superposed with the AC voltage; a control unit connected to the rectifying and smoothing unit and the voltage generation unit and adapted to control a current value according to the DC voltage output by the rectifying and smoothing unit and control the DC voltage generated by the voltage generation unit. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268616 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An imaging forming apparatus includes a positive high-voltage circuit that generates voltage having a positive polarity, a negative high-voltage circuit connected in series with the positive high-voltage circuit and generates voltage having a negative polarity, a transfer roller to which the voltage generated by the positive high-voltage circuit or the negative high-voltage circuit is supplied, neutralizing pins to which the voltage generated by the negative high-voltage circuit is supplied, a current detection circuit that detects current flowing into the transfer roller, and a diode connected between the transfer roller and the neutralizing pins and that separates a path for the current flowing into the transfer roller and a path for current flowing into the neutralizing pins from each other. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268617 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having image supporting members and developing devices provided for a plurality of colors respectively, and a developing bias source. The developing bias source includes DC power circuits provided for the colors respectively, an AC power circuit provided for use in common for all of the colors, and an element provided for at least one of the colors other than black. The developing bias source generates developing biases by superimposing an AC voltage output from the AC power circuit on DC voltages output from the DC power circuits and applies the developing biases to the respectively corresponding developing devices. The element maintains a constant voltage having a potential of an opposite polarity to a potential of charged toner used for the development. The developing bias source further superimposes the constant voltage on the developing bias for the at least one of the colors other than black. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268618 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first image bearer, a lubricant dispenser to apply lubricant to the first image bearer, and a controller to adjust a spatial interval during image formation between successive recording media on each of which an image is formed, according to a total amount of toner attached to the first image bearer for each of the successive recording media, to apply the lubricant to the first image bearer. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268619 | LUBRICANT SUPPLYING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A lubricant supplying device includes: lubricant; a supplying member that supplies the lubricant to a lubricant supply target; and a remaining amount detecting unit that detects that a remaining amount of the lubricant is equal to or smaller than a certain amount. The remaining amount detecting unit includes a first electrode member and a second electrode member. The lubricant supplying device includes a member that causes at least a part of the second electrode member to move and causes the second electrode member to abut the first electrode member with an increase in consumption of the lubricant. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268620 | WASTE TONER BOTTLE FOR UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION OF RESIDUAL TONER FROM AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A waste toner bottle for an imaging device according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for storing toner. A tube defines an auger path about the housing. The tube is in fluid communication with a plurality of inlets of the housing and has a transfer auger disposed along the auger path to move toner into the reservoir. The tube extends upward into the upper region of the housing above the plurality of inlets. The tube extends from a first end of the reservoir to a second end of the reservoir in the upper region of the housing. The tube includes perforations in a bottom of the tube between the first end of the reservoir and the second end of the reservoir in the upper region of the housing to drop toner from the auger path into the reservoir. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268621 | REMOVAL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A removal device includes a scraping member extending in a crossing direction that crosses a movement direction in which a cleaning object moves, the scraping member scraping waste off a surface of the cleaning object at a contact portion of the scraping member that is in contact with the surface; and a pair of sealing members disposed on both outer sides of the scraping member in the crossing direction and sealing the both outer sides by contacting the surface. Each of the sealing members includes a protruding portion that protrudes beyond the contact portion upstream in the movement direction of the cleaning object. The protruding portion has a slit that extends diagonally from an edge of the protruding portion outward in the crossing direction and upstream in the movement direction, the edge facing inward in the crossing direction. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268622 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a main body of the apparatus, a plurality of cartridges each including a photosensitive member, and a transfer unit detachably mounted on the main body of the apparatus. The transfer unit includes an endless belt opposing the photosensitive member, a plurality of stretching members configured to stretch the belt, and a frame configured to axially support a plurality of rollers. The frame is provided with a plurality of positioning portions configured to allow abutment of the plurality of cartridges and determine the positions of the plurality of cartridges in the main body of the apparatus. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268623 | Cover Movement Mechanism, and Image Forming Apparatus Provided with the Cover Movement Mechanism - A cover movement mechanism has a cover, a base part, a holding part configured to contact the cover in a first opened state in which the cover is rotated to open by a first angle with respect to a closed state, thereby holding the cover in the first opened state, two shafts having a common axis and provided to one of the cover and the base part, two bearings configured to receive the two shafts and provided to other one of the cover and the base part, and a releasing mechanism configured to allow at least one of the two shafts to be released from corresponding one of the two bearings when the cover is in a second state in which the cover is rotated to open by a second angle that is smaller than the first angle and an opposing force preventing a rotation of cover acts on the cover. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268624 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DETACHABLE BODY - Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming apparatus main body, a detachable body that is detachably provided on the image forming apparatus main body, includes an image holding member, and moves along a predetermined moving path, and a light emitting member that performs a light emission to the image holding member, is pressed against the detachable body, and a portion of the light emitting member protrudes to the moving path, wherein a first portion of the light emitting member positioned on the moving path is pressed, the light emitting member is moved in a direction, a second portion positioned on the moving path is pressed, and the light emitting member is moved in a direction opposite to the second direction, and wherein one of the pressing of the first portion and the pressing of the second portion is performed first, and the other is performed later. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268625 | Image Forming Apparatus with Structural Connection Function - The present disclosure illustrates an image forming apparatus with structural connection function. The image forming apparatus can be applied to a business machine, to solve the problem of bad quality of image caused by shaking of a developing module. The image forming apparatus is characterized in that the groove with the inclined angle is equal to the pressure angle of the gear to constrain the operation direction of the developing module, so as to prevent the developing module from shaking. The present disclosure just modifies the design of the guiding channel to constrain the developing module, so the cost of components can be reduced efficiently. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268626 | PAPER CONVEYANCE DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A paper conveyance device comprises: a conveyance member having a conveyance surface for conveying a recording medium, the conveyance member extending in a first direction along a front-rear direction of the image forming apparatus that has an opening member for exposing inside of the apparatus, and including a handle disposed on an exposure surface of the opening member, and a swing pivot point that is used to swing the conveyance member around the first direction to expose the conveyance surface when the handle is operated in the open state. The handle is disposed in at least one position in a range between positions near a center of the conveyance member in the first direction. The positions are a certain distance away from the center of the conveyance member along the first direction. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268627 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH AIR SUPPLY DEVICE FOR BLOCKING INFILTRATION OF OUTSIDE AIR - Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image reader that is disposed on an upper side of an image forming apparatus body and is provided with an opening portion through which wiring connected to the image forming apparatus body side passes, and an air supply device that is provided in the image forming apparatus body or in the image reader, and forms an air flow that blocks infiltration of outside air into the image reader on an outer side of the opening portion. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268628 | Holographic Microscope, Holographic Image Generation Method, and Method for Acquiring Data for Holographic Image - The present method includes a data acquisition process and tomographic image generation processes. In the data acquisition process, holograms of an object light and so forth are acquired for each light with a wavelength by changing the wavelengths of the illumination light, off-axis spherical wave reference light, and inline spherical wave reference light. In the tomographic image generation process, a reconstructed light wave of the object light and a reconstructed light wave of the illumination light on a reconstruction surface are generated from these holograms. A reconstruction light wave with adjusted phase is added up for each wavelength to generate a tomographic hologram. From this, an accurate and focused tomographic image without distortion can be generated. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268629 | PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITION FOR FORMING VOLUME HOLOGRAM RECORDING LAYER - Provided is a photosensitive composition for volume hologram recording layer formation. The photosensitive composition gives a volume hologram recording layer that has excellent moisture resistance and thermal stability, less undergoes cure shrinkage upon hologram recording, and offers excellent multiple recording properties. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268630 | Ultra-High Resolution Digital Holographic Camera - A high resolution holographic imaging system. A laser illuminator is configured to operate in two or more wavelengths sequentially and a phase modulator element configured to operate at three or more phase positions. The illumination beam is split into two parts and propagated into optically diffractive elements to define “top hat” signals from the received Gaussian signals. One beam is directed onto a target area scene of interest and one beam is directed to an optical phase modulator element. The two beams are combined on an electronic imaging element for three phase positions of the phase modulator. The laser wavelength is shifted slightly and operation repeats. The data frames are digitized and a data processing unit implemented to calculate the complex amplitude and perform reconstruction of the image. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268631 | ONE-PIECE COMPOSITE IMPULSE PIN-SAFETY ROLLER COMPONENT - The invention relates to a one-piece composite micromechanical timepiece component including a first functional level including an impulse pin made of a first material arranged to cooperate with a member, the first functional level also including an electroformed portion made of a second metallic material partially overlapping the impulse pin and a second functional level including only the electroformed portion forming a roller also arranged to cooperate with the member. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268632 | INERTIA SETTING OR POISING OF A TIMEPIECE SPRUNG BALANCE ASSEMBLY - A method of setting inertia of and/or poising a timepiece sprung balance assembly including: manufacturing a balance and a balance spring irreversibly assembled to each other; fixing an outer coil of the balance spring in position in a tamperproof manner to a balance spring stud which is immobilized in a tamperproof manner by irreversible attachment to a balance cock; determining a peripheral surface of the balance, every point of which is remote from the balance spring by a first predefined distance; performing a re-machining operation only on the peripheral area. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER - According to various embodiments described herein, a device includes a control circuit, a time-to-digital converter circuit coupled having a first output coupled to a first input of the control circuit, and a gating circuit having a first input coupled to a first signal, a second input coupled to a second signal, and an output coupled to a first input of the time-to-digital converter circuit, an output of the control circuit coupled to a second input of the time-to-digital converter circuit and to a third input of the gating circuit. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268634 | Electronic Timepiece And Method For Controlling Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece includes a reception device that receives a satellite signal, a reception control section that activates the reception device to carry out a reception process, a chronograph section that measures time, an input device, and an action control section when detecting time measurement input operation performed on the input device for activating the chronograph section during the reception process carried out by the reception control section, terminates the action of the reception control section, and activates the chronograph section. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268635 | ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE AND TIME DIFFERENCE CORRECTION METHOD - When an operation button is pressed for three seconds, a second hand is reversed and fast-forwarded to the position of a currently set time difference. After the second hand stops, the second hand is moved stepwise to time difference display positions to continuously display time difference correction candidates. In this state, when the operation button is pressed, the second hand is caused to stop, and an hour hand is moved to the position of time determined in consideration of the time difference at which the second hand points. The time difference at which the second hand points is stored as a time difference set value, and an action mode is switched to a normal time display mode for time-difference time display based on the time difference set value. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268636 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND WRISTWATCH - The present invention includes a wristwatch case provided with a watch glass, a dial plate provided in the wristwatch case, and a timepiece module arranged below the dial plate, and the timepiece module has a first antenna arranged in its one end portion so as to receive a high-frequency radio wave for GPS and a second antenna arranged in the other end portion opposing the first antenna so as to receive a standard time radio wave whose frequency differs from that of a radio wave to be received by the first antenna. Accordingly, radio waves for GPS can be received by the first antenna and standard time radio waves can be received by the second antenna arranged opposing the first antenna. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268637 | RADIO TIMEPIECE AND RECEIPT CONTROL METHOD - A receipt time determination unit of a control unit in a control circuit modifies a receipt time in a case where a gain determined by an AGC circuit in a receiver circuit unit is not less than a reference value, where it is discerned that there is an error in a time code by an error discernment unit of a TCO decoder unit in the control circuit unit, and where it is discerned that data of the time code is impacted by interference waves by an interference wave discernment unit of the TCO decoder unit. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268638 | ANALOG ELECTRONIC TIMEPIECE AND HAND MOVEMENT CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An analog electronic timepiece including: a radiowave receiver that receives radiowaves from positioning satellites, acquires preassigned target data from the received radiowaves and outputs the acquired target data; a hand that is provided to be rotatable; a time calculator that calculates a turnaround time from input of a reception command for the radiowaves to the radiowave receiver to output of the acquired target data; and a notification controller that instructs the hand to carry out a predetermined notification movement during reception of the radiowaves and finish the notification movement at a timing when the turnaround time elapses. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268639 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a dial, a module and a solar panel. The module is arranged under the dial and including a circular polarization antenna which includes a power feed point and a radiating electrode. The solar panel is arranged between the dial and the module and has an area corresponding to an area of the dial in a face direction thereof. The solar panel is constituted by a plurality of solar cells including a solar cell that has a light receiving surface arranged at a position corresponding to the radiating electrode. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268640 | TIMER AND WATCH - A timer includes: a case body made of synthetic resin; an outer case made of synthetic resin, located above the case body and extending to a portion of an upper face of a watch glass; a reinforcement member made of metal embedded in the case body to prevent deformation of the case body when the watch glass is fit thereto and ensure airtightness; and an antenna arranged inside the case body and beneath the reinforcement member, wherein the reinforcement member is embedded in the case body in no electrical continuity with a ground potential. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268641 | DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT ADAPTATION - A method of dynamically adapting an environment may include collecting sensor data from a biological sensor and an environmental sensor. The method may also include, based on the sensor data, determining whether an optimal environmental state exists in an environment. The optimal environmental state may be defined in a health and wellness policy and may be configured to promote an optimal biological state of an individual in the environment. In response to the optimal environmental state not existing in the environment, the method may include identifying an environmental condition that differs from the optimal environmental state and generating a command configured to alter an operational state of an environmental device that affects the environmental condition. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268642 | Apparatus Comprising Electromechanical Device and Motion Detector and Method for Operating Apparatus - The invention relates to an apparatus comprising an electromechanical device, a control unit and a motion detector, wherein said electromechanical device is controllable by said control unit via a control signal, wherein said motion detector is configured such that said mechanical movement of said electromechanical device is determined and wherein said motion detector provides a motion detector signal. The invention also relates to a method for operating an electromechanical device. The technical problem of providing an apparatus with an electromechanical device, the reliability as well as the power consumption of which is improved, is solved in that the control unit is configured such that it can be influenced by the phase difference between the control signal and the motion detector signal. The technical problem is also solved by a method for operating an apparatus, in particular an apparatus according to the invention, comprising the steps of running an electromechanical device with a control signal, producing a motion detector signal from a mechanical movement of said electromechanical device and influencing said control signal in dependence of said phase difference between said control signal and said motion detector signal. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268643 | Quantifying the Impact of Constraints on a Grid-Tied Microgrid Using Optimal Control - Systems and methods are disclosed to evaluate the impact of a constraint on the performance of the microgrid by receiving as input a set of solar power, load and grid cost conditions; applying dynamic programming to determine optimal battery dispatch and the imported grid power; and optimizing microgrid operation with a chosen constraint of interest. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268644 | OPTIMAL CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWER SYSTEM - An optimal control method and apparatus for a power system are provided. The method includes: obtaining ancillary service bidding data; establishing a power system optimal control model according to the ancillary service bidding data; solving the power system optimal control model to obtain optimal frequency regulation capacities and optimal spinning reserve capacities; sending the optimal frequency regulation capacities and the optimal spinning reserve capacities to generators such that the generators adjust their active powers to provide ancillary services for the power system. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268645 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPECIFYING AND VISUALIZING ROBUST TUNING OF MODEL-BASED CONTROLLERS - A method includes obtaining information identifying uncertainties associated with multiple parameters of a model for an industrial model-based controller. The method also includes obtaining information identifying multiple tuning parameters for the controller. The method further includes generating a graphical display identifying (i) one or more expected step responses of an industrial process that are based on the tuning parameters of the controller and (ii) an envelope around the one or more expected step responses that is based on the uncertainties associated with the parameters of the model. The parameters could include a process gain, a time constant, and a time delay associated with the model. The uncertainties associated with the parameters of the model could include, for each parameter of the model, an uncertainty expressed in the time domain. The information identifying the tuning parameters could include a settling time and an overshoot associated with the controller. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268646 | METHODS, ARRANGEMENTS AND DEVICES FOR ANIMAL MANAGEMENT - An animal management system with a control device configured to control various farm devices, each of the farm devices individually controllable by the control device according to pre-defined settings, where the control device, responsive to a request from a portable device pertaining to a particular animal, is configured to cause a pre-defined setting of a farm device to temporarily change based on the request from the portable device and therefore cause the farm device to operate according to the temporary setting, and subsequently, after an elapse of time or occurrence of an event related to the farm device, revert the setting back to an original setting and cause the farm device to again operate according to the original setting. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268647 | USER BASED HOME AUTOMATION METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, AND SUPPORTING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a home automation method and apparatus and a method and apparatus for supporting the same. The home automation method from a home device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises selecting a service scenario comprising at least one unit function, the service scenario being selected by a user; requesting to provide a unit function list applicable to the selected service scenario to a server when there is a request to modify a unit function for the selected service scenario from the user; and applying at least one unit function, selected by the user from the unit function list received from the server, to the selected service scenario and storing the result. According to embodiments of the present invention, customized services which fit to a user can be provided. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268648 | METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING SMART HOME APPLIANCE - A method and a terminal device for controlling a smart home appliance are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes: obtaining a current operation instruction; determining whether there is a preset combination instruction corresponding to the current operation instruction; sending at least two operation instructions in the preset combination instruction to a corresponding smart home appliance if there is the preset combination instruction and the preset combination instruction is selected; sending the current operation instruction to the corresponding smart home appliance if there is no preset combination instruction. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268649 | MINI-AUTOMATION CONTROLLER - Systems and methods for controlling lab equipment such as transmitters are provided that includes a mini automation controller (MAC). The system provides a control system, user interface, and interfaces, including network interfaces usable for interfacing equipment, MAC, and user interfaces over a network, which provide a variety of functions including automation and monitoring of transmission sequences and receiver events. An exemplary MAC may include an Ethernet controller capable of converting an Ethernet signal to a serial signal. The MAC may also include a receiver monitor section comprising a fiber optic receiver input, a copper cable receiver input, and a monostable multivibrator. In addition to the receiver monitor section, the MAC may have a transmitter control section including a transmitter control pulse and a power output. An exemplary MAC may have a microcontroller coupled to the Ethernet controller, the receiver monitor section, and the transmitter control section. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268650 | POWER MODELING BASED BUILDING DEMAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method and system are provided. The method includes generating a power model, modeling power demands of at least one of a building and subsystems thereof, responsive to measured power-related inputs specific to the building and forecasted power-related inputs. The method further includes controlling, by a processor-based supervisory controller, power consumption of at least one of the building and the subsystems responsive to the power demands modeled by the power model. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268651 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DRILLING ROBOT, AND DRILLING ROBOT IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a drilling robot and a method for controlling a drilling robot including a driven mechanical structure allowing to place a drilling tool in a sequence of drillings programmed in terms of position and orientation of the drilling of a part such as a technical skin. The method includes a step of determining the acceleration of the drilling tool at the end of the approach on a drilling position, then also testing a stabilization condition of the drilling tool to finally establish a drilling authorization. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268652 | THERMOSTAT WITH ELECTRONIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A programmable controller for homes and/or buildings and their related grounds, such as thermostat, that has a display and an external interface. The external interface may be use for uploading electronic images and/or other information from an external data source, and may use the uploaded electronic images and/or other information for programming and/or updating the controller and/or for viewing the electronic images and/or other information on the display of the controller. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268653 | REMOTELY CONTROLLED VALVE - A remotely controlled valve includes an electric motor and transmission for moving a valve stem or valve actuator. The operation of the motor may be controlled by a first input for power and analog signals. The valve is also provided with a programmable logic controller and a wireless module for receiving wireless control signals for controlling the operation of the motor which moves the valve stem or a valve actuator in a desired manner. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268654 | GENERATION AND PUBLICATION OF SHARED TAGSETS - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate receipt of tag requests from one or more interfaces, based upon which a single tagset is compiled at a controller comprising all the requested tags for a given update rate, whereupon the single compiled tagset is subsequently forwarded to the one or more interfaces. A controller generates a superset of tags associated with an industrial process. Each interface can request a copy of the superset, from which the required tags are selected. The controller receives the requested tags from all of the interfaces and combines the requested tags into a single tagset, for a given update rate, comprising the various parameters associated with the tags. At the selected update rate, the tagset is forwarded to the interfaces. A masterset can be utilized to identify the sequence of tags in a tagset and check code can ensure continuity of the tags in the tagset. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268655 | METHOD OF AUTHETICATING INTERLOCK FUNCTION OF PLC CONTROL PROGRAM USING SMV - Provided is a method of verifying an interlock function of a PLC control program which includes transforming the PLC control program into a control intermediate model, simplifying the control intermediate model using information on an output signal list of output signals among a plurality of output signals outputted from the PLC driving system as the PLC control program is driven, transforming the PLC driving system and the simplified control intermediate model into a finite state machine (FSM) form, and verifying in relays of checking whether a situation in which the output signals of the output signal list causing the erroneous situation are turned on (ON) at the same time occurs in the control intermediate model simplified to the FSM form using a symbolic model verifier (SMV) and modifying the PLC control program. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268656 | Drug Dispensing Device - A dispensing device for dispensing liquids, particularly liquid medications to people, contains a container which is filled with a liquid and which has an opening at one end for dispensing same. The dispensing device further has at least one pair of capacitive measuring electrodes which are arranged in an outer region of the container, particularly on the wall, opposite one another, for determining the permittivity of the respective medium in the intermediate region between the measuring electrodes. A shield is arranged around the container and surrounds the measurement electrodes in a sheath-like manner. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268657 | MOVING POSITION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MOVING APPARATUS - A moving position control system for a moving apparatus comprises an embedded PC ( | 2015-09-24 |
20150268658 | SERVO CONTROLLER FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN AXES IN MACHINING - The servo controller of the present invention includes a first axis speed feedback obtaining unit, a second axis speed feedback obtaining unit configured to obtain an amount of speed feedback for a second axis synchronizing with a first axis, a speed conversion unit configured to convert an amount of speed feedback for the first axis by using a conversion coefficient, a speed difference calculating unit configured to calculate a speed difference between the converted amount of speed feedback for the first axis and the amount of speed feedback for the second axis, a torque correction calculating unit configured to calculate a torque correction value by using the speed difference, a second axis torque command correcting unit using the torque correction value, a torque correction value converting unit using the conversion coefficient, and a first axis torque command correcting unit using the converted torque correction value. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268659 | ROBOT CONTROLLER HAVING FUNCTION OF PREDICTING PROCESSING COMPLETION TIME OF MACHINE TOOL - The robot controller includes an operation command part configured to output an operation command so as to perform a first operation of conveying a workpiece from an initial position to a first position adjacent to the machine tool, a time prediction part configured to predict processing completion time of the workpiece based on a processing start signal output from a machine tool controller, a time length prediction part configured to predict time length necessary for the first operation, and a time determination part configured to determine start time of the first operation so that the first operation is completed at the processing completion time on the basis of the predicted processing completion time and time length necessary for the first operation. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268660 | SCHEDULE MAKING DEVICE, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SCHEDULE MAKING PROGRAM, SCHEDULE MAKING METHOD, AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - To provide a technique capable of making a schedule with good time efficiency in schedule making for the transport of substrates. A schedule making device makes a judgment as to whether a batch carrying-out procedure can complete the transport earlier than a sequential carrying-out procedure or not, and selectively employs these procedures in accordance with a result of the judgment. The sequential carrying-out procedure is a procedure in which substrates are transported to a predetermined transport destination in chronological order of the times at which the transport process can start, and the batch carrying-out procedure is a procedure in which a substrate the transport process of which can start is not transported until a time at which the transport process of a succeeding substrate can start, and the substrates are transported together to a transport destination at the time when the transport process of the succeeding substrate can start. | 2015-09-24 |
20150268661 | Simulation Apparatus for Manual Operation of Machine Tool - A simulation apparatus | 2015-09-24 |
20150268662 | USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR ELIMINATING FAULTS IN AN INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATION - Technical installation data are visually preprocessed in a targeted manner in a control room or on a tablet with a touchscreen in mobile use by presenting a priority matrix. For this purpose, the interference messages are sorted, for example, horizontally with descending priority from left to right and vertically according to the installation part and are output. This largely relieves an operator of analysis and prioritization of the interference messages. The operator can therefore identify, locate and eliminate the most important interference messages in a shorter time. The number of priorities and installation parts considered is flexible since the matrix can be scaled to a wide variety of installation types, installation sizes and processes. All technical installation data relevant to assessing the situation are combined in one view. A second display area with a logical view is used to provide an overview of the complete industrial installation. | 2015-09-24 |